by GSR Staff
July 18, 2017
Today we should all ask ourselves; what have I done to improve the surroundings in which I live?"
by Margaret Gonsalves
Contributor
July 18, 2017
Of the 500 people at a 2009 meeting of religious leaders from around the world, not a single woman was invited. One of the eminent speakers at that conference expressed surprise, pointing out that men who start and fight the wars badly need the presence and contribution of women in the decision-making process in order to create a culture of peace.
by Shireen Korkzan
July 18, 2017
In addition to adopting four children and fostering close to 75 more, Srs. Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas, Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, opened Operation Breakthrough, a nonprofit early-education center and social service facility in Kansas City that today serves more than 400 children and their families daily.
by Tracey Horan
Contributor
July 17, 2017
GSR Today - The Giving Voice National Gathering, we talked about bridges. I am resistant to the idea of bridges because only connecting with our deeper values, risking unearthing ways we are already one, will bring us into unity.
by Maureen Hickey
Contributor
July 17, 2017
Was it a coincidence that this happened on the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus? On June 3, 2016, Pope Francis raised the July 22 celebration of St. Mary Magdalene from a memorial to a liturgical feast.
July 17, 2017
Though she feels the church has largely given up on sex abuse victims, Dominican Sr. Sally Butler is not giving up on changing it. She loves the things Pope Francis has said about abuse but says there has been too little action. Because of a discovery in 1993, Butler is unable to believe in the institutional church anymore, even though she has been in religious life for 70 years. But her faith in God, she says, has never been stronger.
by GSR Staff
July 17, 2017
"We do not journey alone, nor should we."
Maureen Hickey is a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of New Windsor. She is the nurse administrator of Presentation Health Care Center in Leominster, Massachusetts, and belongs to St. Joseph Parish in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where she volunteers as a parish nurse and is a member of the choir.
Margaret Gonsalves is a Sister for Christian Community and feminist theologian active in the Ecclesia of Women in Asia and Indian Women Theologians Forum. As founder of ANNNI Charitable Trust, she networks in solidarity with nongovernmental organizations to run free residential programs in intensive spoken English to empower Indigenous girls and women. She organizes MADness workshops to implement the United Nations' sustainable development goals as well as the spirituality of Laudato Si' and Fratelli Tutti.
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by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
July 14, 2017
Together, we move forward into the future of religious life. We are part of communities larger than ourselves; communities that fill our hearts and feed our souls. We do not journey alone, nor should we.